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The Israeli Regime Untangled
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
The Israeli reality provides evidence of conflicting regime classifications ranging from a liberal democracy to various types of non-democracy. Gaps between political contestation, protection, and coverage in Israel proper as well as the regime’s ambiguous borders enable such conflicting interpretations. Nevertheless, these conflicting classifications are not just a consequence of the contradictory elements in the Israeli regime; they are also a consequence of the concept of democracy itself. Notwithstanding its attractiveness, democracy’s very essence precludes its use for analytical purposes in some cases. These inherent limitations undermine the ability to use it for classifying disputed cases such as Israel. By emphasizing this theoretical weakness of the concept of democracy, this book has argued that classifications of regimes cannot be conclusively applied in all cases and that there are cases in which the disaggregated approach of analyzing the democraticness of various dimensions might be more illuminating than merely debating classification.
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